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Karunya Plus KN-191 Lottery Result on 14-12-2017

2,042 poor beneficiaries of Kerala's Karunya lottery

A total of 2,042 poor patients, suffering from
serious ailments, have received funds for their treatment from the
revenues earned by the Kerala government-run lottery "Karunya", Finance
Minister K.M. Mani said Friday.

Since being launched
last August, the scheme has helped 2,042 poor patients to the tune of
Rs.16.56 crore, he told reporters here.

The income from the sale
of lottery tickets is exclusively set apart in a fund for extending
financial assistance to patients from deprived sections of society
suffering from kidney, cancer, cardiac, neurological or liver
complaints, besides haemophilia patients.

The lottery has an attractive prize structure offering Rs.1 crore as first prize. Each ticket costs Rs.50.

Mani
said the government has decided to expand this scheme to 32 private
sector hospitals in the state, where the poor and weaker sections of the
society can avail this health scheme.

"Hitherto, this scheme was
available only in the state-run hospitals and now since we want
speedier health attention to the poor, we decided to bring in the
private sector too. All checks and balances will be in place to see that
private sector hospitals do not make any undue advantage of this
scheme," he said.

Mani's brainchild, the "Karunya" scheme
provides assistance of a maximum of Rs.2 lakh to a single family hailing
from the weaker and poorer sections of society.

"Today the
available corpus in the Karunya Benevolent Fund has crossed Rs.57 crore,
from which we have given out Rs.16.56 crore for treating the poor,"
said Mani.

State-owned Kerala lotteries has never made a loss since its inception and has various lottery tickets which have a weekly draw.

In
1967, the total revenue from lottery sales was only Rs.20 lakh which
has witnessed a whopping increase to reach a stupendous Rs.557.69 crore
in 2010-2011.

There are more than 35,000 authorised agents and over 100,000 retail sellers in the state selling the lottery tickets.